the government - Different Truths

March 10, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Ensuring Dignity in Life and Death Selectively: Majority of Indians Live in Wretched Conditions

Perhaps more significant is the part of the verdict that deals with a distressed person’s right to end life voluntarily. As a first step towards giving judicial support to...

March 10, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
International Relations, Politics, World

What are the Global Ramifications of the Racial Tension in the Kandy District of Sri Lanka?

Ranil Wickremesinghe’s 11-day tenure as the law and order minister was marred by racial tension in the central district of Kandy. Muslim-owned businesses and religious sites came under attack...

March 9, 2018
IPA Service
Corruption

India Still in Most Corrupt Group: Rich Men go Scot-free, Poor are Punished

The Corruption Perception Indices for the last four years released by the Transparency International have also found rampant corruption in the country and placed India among the most corrupt...

March 9, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Economy, Health

Health Watch: Why Pharmaceutical Marketing Code Must be Mandatory

The NPPA, after hearing all the stakeholders, did not agree to increase the price of stents. No wonder it would have irked the industry, which would have lobbied intensely...

March 8, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Economy, International Relations, Politics

Vietnam is now a Story of Success and Growth

Along the business center of the country, Ho Chi Minh City is today the hub around which Vietnam’s “socialist-oriented market economy” revolves. The oxymoronic nature of that phrase is...

March 8, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, Health, Politics

Government Stand on Primary Health Care Still Unclear

It needs to be recalled that for a country widely credited to have the benefit of demographic dividends with a robust youthful workforce it took 15 long years to...

February 28, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Economy, Environment, Industry

Electric Vehicles to Bring Cheap, Pollution Free Urban Transportation

E-rickshaws provide a simple, easy and pollution-free solution. E-autos and E-bikes and E-scooters too are slowly picking up. A start-up has come up with a bright idea to have...

February 28, 2018
Mahima Sharma
Cyber Security

Will Palm Vein Patterns become the New Identification?

A new identification technology based on palm vein recognition has been developed by a former army officer. Mahima finds out more about this innovative approach, in the weekly column,...

February 27, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Supreme Court Lands in another Major Crisis: Judicial Impropriety in Conflicting Judgements on Land Acquisition

Conflicting judgements on land acquisition exposes a major crisis in judicial impropriety. Here’s a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also legal policy...